Quote Originally Posted by joe.denice View Post
so you guys think its a good idea to remove the north and south bridge heatpipe setup and throw some AS5 on top of them to help out?? what about the mosfets?? should I use Arctic Alumina or Artic silver on those??
I had a big problem doing this. Per usual, evga uses about a pound of thermal grease on all the chipsets. I cleaned that off, nicely AS5ed all of em, and reattached the heatpipe assembly. The damned heatsinks dont touch the nb/sb without a massive layer of AS5........

So i proceed to shave down the little rubber spacers, and even though i only took half a mm or less off of them, apparently that was a much needed half mm. The board shorted out and got a permanent 1d error.

ARGH

Irritated at EVGA for having a halfassed solution of just globbing on more thermal grease to fill a rather large gap between the ICs and the heatpipe assembly